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Oak Park offers a variety of services that can be accessed online from a computer, tablet or smart phone. Some of the services are managed directly by the Village, while others are third-party vendors authorized by the Village to conduct transactions.

The Village of Oak Park provides a wide range of services, from public safety programs like fire and police protection to support for housing, historic preservation and neighborhood relations. Don't see what you are looking for? Use the search feature at the top of the page.

Oak Park operates under the village manager form of government. An elected legislative body of a president/mayor and six trustees hires a professional manager to oversee the day to day administration of government programs and services.

Oak Park boasts excellent schools, world class architecture, shopping, dining and an extensive public transportation network. But Oak Park is more than a place – it also is a way of life. Use the links in this menu to learn more about our community and the many services available to residents and visitors alike.

Development projects energize Oak Park

Nov. 11, 2016 - Officials broke ground Thursday for another development project in downtown Oak Park that is bringing new energy to the heart of the community.

The groundbreaking ceremony was for the five-story District House development at the corner of Lake Street and Euclid Avenue that will replace the former Tasty Dog restaurant, which closed last year. Once completed in the spring of 2018, District House will add 28 condominiums and 4,500 square feet of new retail space to the neighborhood.

District House is one of four major construction projects either nearing completion, well underway or soon to begin within blocks of Lake Street, adding new residential units, retail space and public parking to the mix of Oak Park's central business districts.

Even as contractors are putting the finishing touches on Vantage Oak Park at Lake Street and Forest Avenue, residents already are moving into the property's 270 rental apartments, and Cooper's Hawk Winery & Restaurant and Edward-Elmhurst Health have signed leases to occupy the building's 25,000 square feet of retail space next year.

Rising 21 stories, Vantage now is the tallest building in Oak Park and also includes 300 dedicated public spaces within an integrated 588-car parking garage.

Meanwhile, work is progressing steadily at a development site on the south side of Lake Street just east of Harlem Avenue. Currently called Elevate Oak Park, the project rises five stories on Lake Street, then steps back into a 20-story structure on North Boulevard.

In addition to 270 apartments and 26,000 square feet of retail space, the project includes a new block of Maple Street on the site's western edge and a 424-space parking garage.

Construction also is expected to begin on a 12-story mixed-use development at Harlem Avenue and South Boulevard early next year.

When the dust from construction settles, these four projects will add more than 830 residential units, 65,000 square feet of retail space, 1,400 new parking spaces and $242 million in private investment.